What is apparent here is they just wanted this handout no matter what the environment cost. Evidence is clear.
How they sell it.
cash for clunkers report.
"Back in 2009, President Obama’s “Cash for Clunkers” program was supposed to be a boon for the environment and the economy."
What it really means.
"According to a recent TriCities op-ed from Mike Smith of Ralph Smith Motors
in Virginia, CARS created a dearth of used cars, artificially driving
up prices. For those who needed an affordable car, but didn’t qualify
for the program, this increase in price meant affordable transportation
was well out of reach. It also meant used-car dealers, most of whom are
independently owned, small-business owners, had little to no stock.
According to Smith, 122 Virginia dealers chose not to renew their
licenses after that year."
Stuck in read tape.
"The program's first mistake seems to have been its focus on car
shredding, instead of car recycling. With 690,000 vehicles traded in,
that's a pretty big mistake."
"Shredding vehicles results in its own environmental nightmare. For each
ton of metal produced by a shredding facility, roughly 500 pounds of
“shredding residue” is also produced, which includes polyurethane foams,
metal oxides, glass and dirt. All totaled, about 4.5 million tons of
that residue is already produced on average every year. Where does it
go? Right into a landfill."
"E Magazine states recycling
just the plastic and metal alone from the CARS scraps would have saved
24 million barrels of oil. While some of the “Clunkers” were truly old,
many of the almost 700,000 cars were still in perfectly good condition.
In fact, many that qualified for the program were relatively “young,”
with fuel efficiencies that rivaled newer cars."
